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Recommendations
Status: implemented Year: Country: Tajikistan Recommended To: The Administration Source: 2021 USCIRF Annual Report Recommendation:Redesignate Tajikistan as a “country of particular concern,” or CPC, for engaging in systematic, ongoing, and…
Recommendations
Status: not_implemented Year: Country: Tajikistan Recommended To: The Administration Source: 2021 USCIRF Annual Report Recommendation:Condition U.S. assistance to the Tajikistani government, with the exception of aid to improve humanitarian…
Recommendations
Status: not_implemented Year: Country: Tajikistan Recommended To: The Administration Source: 2021 USCIRF Annual Report Recommendation:Impose targeted sanctions on Tajikistani government agencies and officials responsible for severe violations of…
Recommendations
Status: partially_implemented Year: Country: Tajikistan Recommended To: Congress; The Administration Source: 2021 USCIRF Annual Report Recommendation:Press the Tajikistani government at the highest levels to identify and immediately release…
USCIRF Condemns School Abductions in Nigeria
Jul 9, 2021 USCIRF Condemns School Abductions in Nigeria Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today condemned the attack on a Christian school in Nigeria, where 125 students…
USCIRF Denounces Nigerian Religious Police Arrests of LGBTI Persons
Jul 15, 2021 USCIRF Denounces Nigerian Religious Police Arrests of LGBTI Persons   Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today denounced the arrest of five men suspected of engaging in lesbian, gay…
Newsweek: Holy Seasons Bring Uncertainty in West and Central Africa
Jul 22, 2021 This op-ed was originally published in Newsweek, on July 22, 2021. Written by USCIRF Commissioners Anurima Bhargava and Tony Perkins.   This spring, in the central African nation of Democratic Republic of the…
Why the State Department Should Re-designate Nigeria as a CPC
Sep 24, 2021 Since 2009, USCIRF has recommended that the U.S. State Department designate Nigeria a country of particular concern, or CPC, for engaging in or tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations. In December…
Religious Freedom & Taliban Fears in Tajikistan
Sep 30, 2021 For many years, USCIRF has been deeply concerned about religious freedom conditions in Central Asia, and more recently the impact of the Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan on the surrounding region. Since 2012…
USCIRF Alarmed by Violence against Christians & Shi’a Muslims in Nigeria
Oct 4, 2021 USCIRF Alarmed by Violence against Christians & Shi’a Muslims in Nigeria   Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today condemned recent instances of…